El Club Starlight de Red Fortunato en Queens está de vuelta, todavía lleno de mafiosos y sus "negocios" cada noche. Trenchie, Tarzan y Moose han regresado. La familia Genovese y otros pasan el rato en medio de la grandeza del bebé renovado de Red: El Gran Salón de Baile El director del estudio Columbia Pictures, Larry Bernstein, está siendo chantajeado. "Sabía que una vez que se hubiera intercambiado dinero, eso no evitaría ninguna demanda futura. Estas personas eran locas y las nueces significaban peligrosas. No había nadie en Hollywood en quien pudiera confiar. Esta fue la primicia de un columnista de chismes que podría arruinar el estudio". Big Red con entusiasmo ofrece asistencia, en sus términos, con una advertencia: una pieza de Hollywood, y Swifty, el hijo que nunca tuvo, es su boleto en el ring de boxeo y en glamour city. "Red era lo que algunos en el vecindario llamaban un 'dictador benévolo'. Sus vecinos lo amaban y sus enemigos sabían que él era el jefe de una familia criminal que contaba con mil hombres o más. Era un hecho que ningún crimen se llevaría a cabo en el territorio de Red. El resultado fue una represalia llamada "la ira de la Cabeza Roja". "Lástima que nadie le dijo al capo de Detroit hambriento de poder. Él violó las "reglas". El teléfono era una reminiscencia del teléfono rojo que conducía directamente a la Casa Blanca. La decisión del consejo se mantendría. "El jefe tocó los dedos de ambas manos dos veces. Esa fue la señal "para Red de que estaba bien proceder con justicia, estilo mafia". El automóvil avanzó lentamente hasta llegar a una enorme máquina amarilla. Fue la trituradora de automóviles. Reilly y sus hombres sabían al instante su destino. Hubo gemidos desde el interior del coche, hombres crecidos que suplicaban, suplicaban por sus vidas y suplicaban misericordia.
CAUTION: The names have not been changed to protect the guilty! Red Fortunato's captains are back, but this time Trenchie, Tarzan and Moose are up against the government. They will defend their boss to their deaths. So will the residents of Corona, Queens. Big Red's a hometown icon, even revered by the local police. “Every year, Red allowed the policeman's ball to be held at The Starlight Club and every year, on top of that, Red personally bought two or three tables. It was his way of supporting the Widows and Orphans Fund. He sponsored the P. A. L. Little League and supplied the uniforms for the team.”It was all planned – the vision of Joseph P. Kennedy – John as President, with Bobby and his headline making, no–nonsense crime crackdowns, following close behind. Rounding it out would be Teddy. All in the family. Yes, the makings of Camelot. “Help me get my son Jack elected President and I'll make sure he lays off all of you,” the Kennedy patriarch promises the mob. Following in JFK's shadow is hard for brother Bobby. His personality is different. When he hits, he hits hard – work that requires a team of killers. This is a job for Captain James Lonegan and his “Federal Agents” – a group tasked with acting as enforcers – but with no records of employment, no ID's, no traceable paper trails – men who don't exist. Jimmy Hoffa isn't the only one. There are five other names on Bobby's list – all members of the crime commission – Carlo Gambino, Vito Genovese, Sam Giancana, Joe Accardo and . . . Red Fortunato. But “the boys” don't mess around. There's nothing the mob hates worse than a rat. You snitch, you lose brain matter. Secret meetings take place at the renowned Waldorf Astoria and Diplomat Hotels, in “safe rooms,” and with the world's most famous teamster leader. It's there where Jimmy Hoffa issues a severe warning to Red that puts him on the run. “Red's body arched in response,” but will he make it? All he wants to do is make it to Hollywood and start over. Trenchie vows revenge. “Bastard Bobby Kennedy. I'll take out the President too, if I have to, just to show 'em it can be done,” while Sam Giancana is less than pleased with the Attorney General himself. “I regret the day Sinatra brought Joe Kennedy here to meet with me,” he snarls.The 'Kennedy' hates the Mob and the Mob hates the whole damn Kennedy clan. “Shortly after noon today on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.” Meanwhile . . . it's just business as usual at . . . The Starlight Club.
Billy is one of the best pitchers in baseball, but he suddenly finds that his best is no longer good enough. After pitching a perfect game last year, Billy Wagner retired from baseball, but the Mets lured him back by offering him a fortune to pitch for one more season hoping he'd lead them to the World Series. Billy wants to finish this season on a high note - but something he didn't expect may prevent that from happening. This is a story of friendship and courage, and the realization that when you lost something you always took for granted, you can still reach deep down inside of yourself and find something greater to replace it with.
The long running Broadway play is over and all Charlie wants to do now is to ride the back trails of the old abandoned Butterfield Stage route west. He longs for the freedom he used to have, which has been denied him for the past year because of his commitment to Ned Buntline's show based on his best selling dime novel “The Adventures of The Lone Jack Kid." Charlie's freedom on the trail is short lived when three bushwhackers surprise him in camp while he's asleep. They shoot him, and believing they killed him they take his money and leave him for dead. Charlie recovers with the help of an unlikely ally and together they track the men west to El Paso. On his journey west Charlie raises some interesting questions. Under what circumstances does he become a United States Marshal? Why does he befriends a wounded indian? And why is he summoned to the White House by Ulysses S. Grant the President of United States. What does the President want with Charlie? There is a ripple effect to everything we do in life and Charlie is about to discover the results of the ripples he has created…so join the fun and ride along with Charles Longstreet…in the Lone Jack Kid: The Return.
The Starlight Club is jumping . . . All Big Red Fortunato wants to do . . . is clear his name and get his movie studio running in the black, but lately problems appear whenever he tries to leave Queens. Was it destiny that caused the world's most beautiful actress to be shoved into the protective arms of the most powerful mobster in Queens, NY at the exact moment that assassins tried to kill her? Red wonders who wants her dead, and why? This was a war Big Red never wanted, but he's not immune to the charms of the beautiful actress. Red never wore his heart on his sleeve but the more he gets to know Marilyn Monroe the more he finds himself drawn to her. But sinister forces are at work and, as he tries to protect the beautiful movie queen; he is unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit that reaches into the highest levels of government. Red tells Marilyn . . . "From now on wherever you go Trenchie goes with you. And if he's with you, you'll stay alive." Red is proud of his three fighters. Henri was just crowned the Welterweight Champ. Swifty is scheduled to fight for the Middleweight Championship of the world - but Red's heavyweight fighter Gonzo has a problem. His opponent has just lapsed into a coma from a powerhouse right hand to his head ... and he may not live. Joey Bones shook his head. "What do we do now? Here we are holed up with the most popular female star in the world and if the authorities find that we have her, they'll think we kidnapped her." Richard Nixon is scheduled to speak at the Republican Convention in Madison Square garden, where assassins plan to kill him. Red must protect Nixon and his family. The question is - why is Nixon being targeted? Red wonders. Is there a connection between Marilyn and Nixon? In Madison Square Garden Red asks Frankie Carbo. "Frankie if you wanted to kill Nixon, where would you place your shooter." "That's easy." He said pointing to the highest point in the Garden. "I'd put him up there in the eagle's nest." She whispered to him softly, "I only have one good friend and that's ... Joe." Her hand lingered over his scars and his hand remained over hers. Her face was close to his, almost brushing it. He turned to say something, but their lips touched and he kissed her tenderly. The kiss lingered longer than either of them expected. He didn't want the kiss to end, but he broke away. Marilyn promised Frank Sinatra that she'd be at the grand opening of his Cal Neva Lodge. Red wants to go with her for protection, but problems with a Neo Nazi group has surfaced so instead he sends Joey Bones to protect her. "Make sure nothing happens to her Joey. Because if something does, I'm holding you responsible." A Nazi youth group desecrates a Jewish Temple in Queens and the Rabbi is threatened. Red must deal with the problem. Red made sure that Frankie the Horse's wife received a check every week he was in prison. But now he's out and he wants more money. What does he have that can hurt Red?. It was hard for Pissclams to do, but he completed the job. Now Red asks him to follow him into the cellar, but Pissclams is worried about who might be down there waiting for him. The re-grand opening of the Starlight Club is an extravaganza that regulars would never miss. A surprise guest entertainer always provides the entertainment. This night Red's guests are in for a very special treat.
Red Fortunato's Starlight Club in Queens is back, still teeming with mobsters and their "business" each night. Trenchie, Tarzan and Moose have returned. The Genovese family and others hang out amidst the grandeur of Red's renovated baby - the Grand Ballroom. Columbia Pictures studio head, Larry Bernstein, is being blackmailed. "He knew that once any money had been exchanged, that this would not prevent any future demands. These people were nuts and nuts meant dangerous. There was no one in Hollywood he could trust. This was a gossip columnist's dream scoop" that could ruin the studio. Big Red eagerly offers assistance, on his terms, with a caveat - a piece of Hollywood, and Swifty, the son he never had, is his ticket in the boxing ring and in glamour city. "Red was what some in the neighborhood called a 'benevolent dictator.' His neighbors loved him and his enemies knew he was the boss of a crime family that numbered a thousand men or more. It was just a given that no crime would take place in Red's territory. The outcome was a reprisal called 'the wrath of the Red Head'." Too bad no one told the power hungry Detroit capo. He violated the "rules." The phone was reminiscent of the red phone that led right to the White House. The council's decision would stand. "The chief tapped the fingers of both hands twice. That was the signal" to Red that it was okay to proceed with justice - mob style. "The car moved slowly ahead until it reached a huge yellow machine. It was the car crusher. Reilly and his men instantly knew their fate. There were whimpers from inside the car, grown men pleading, pleading for their lives, begging for mercy.
Because of his skills, the CIA coerced Lucky Campo, jewel thief extraordinaire into joining the agency. Time passed, and one morning he awakened to find himself handcuffed to a bed without any recollection of how he got there. After being drugged and questioned, he discovered that his kidnappers had received stolen top-secret CIA information that Campo is a time traveler. His captives eager to learn if the information they have received is true use a new type of truth serum in an attempt to get him to divulge his secret, the secret of how he can travel in time. While Lucky languishes in the hospital prison, his thoughts drift to when he was captured during a robbery and given a choice. It was either jail or join the CIA, so with no other option he joined... but with the proviso that his pal Mickey was a part of the deal. He thought of how his boss Dirk Sommerville tried to assassinate him by rigging the building with explosives and timing it to explode when he entered the building. The explosion almost killed him. His brain and eyesight were severely injured. Upon recovering he discovered that when the doctors operated on his brain they inadvertently did something during the operation, which allowed him to see the curtains of light, the gateways that cut a wormhole through time itself. He remembered how the gateways took him from the CIA to the Crusades, from the Gladiators in ancient Rome, from nuclear weapons to safe houses, until he found himself in the situation he was now in. How Lucky escapes is only the beginning of his adventures.
The Starlight Club 5: Revenge In the fifth book of the Starlight Club, Big Red Fortunato's movie companies are in the black. Now he wants to invest money in a Las Vegas casino. But problems keep popping up in Queens that prevent him from leaving. One is the Boston mob wants to take over the Queens action. Can Big Red stop them? Knowing how dangerous Trenchie is a Los Angeles gang threatens Trenchie's family. How will he handle it? And why would they do this? Why does Meyer Lansky want the top three men in the Queens, NY mob killed? The Greek knew by signing this paper he was signing his death warrant, but what could he do? He took the pen and slowly signed the paper; then, as soon as he put the pen down, Shooter shot him up close in the temple, splattering blood and brain matter onto the paper. Hollywood screen tests and fame and fortuned beckon Iris and Tiffany. Big Red needs leading ladies for his movie studio. Can they succeed as movie stars? Joe Bruno Sr. Author of "Whitey Bulgar - The Biggest Rat" "Joe Corso hits it right on the mark when he takes us on a winding trip through the underbelly of organized crime.
Every firefighter has a treasure trove of interesting stories to tell and the stories more often than not are instructional as well as exciting. When I was a firefighter, I kept notes of the fires I responded to. Now that I am retired, I have reflected on my career as a firefighter and have written a second book about the men alongside whom I worked, facing dangerous situations daily. This book is a compilation of eight short FIRE stories written between 1963 and 1972, from notes I wrote after returning from fires. The first story explores the emotions felt when reporting for duty for the first time. The same emotions felt by all firefighters throughout the world on their first day on the job. An inexplicable bond forms between men and women who face danger on a daily basis and who have been tested - and have passed the test. From the combat soldier, to the policeman and the firefighter - a bond of love and trust has formed that will last a lifetime.
Joe Gregorio was born in 1929, on the cusp of the Great Depression. His father abandoned their small family before Joe was born, and his mother passed away due to tuberculosis not long after his birth. Gregorio and his brother then became charges of the State of New York and spent their childhood and adolescence in a series of foster homes, which brought Gregorio life-changing experiences, to say the least. In his autobiography, My Life, Joe Gregorio presents his times of overwhelming difficulty as well as his victories, his darkest despair as well as the guiding lights who led him into a plentiful life. Gregorio's path took him from orphanages to service in the Korean War resulting in severe panic attacks. After his time in the military, he continued to lead a life that valued hard work as well as deep connections to family and friends. Tortuous as it seemed at times, his path was aided by a number of people who shared with him mutual appreciation, love, and spirit. Our present days of strained economic times bear great similarity to the early 1930s, and Gregorio's story of hope and faith can, in turn, be a guiding light for all of us as we move into the future.
A biography of the legendary college football coach, written with the cooperation of the subject and his family, traces his distinguished career over sixty-two football seasons and his enduring legacy.
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